{"id":4265,"date":"2023-01-21T12:53:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T08:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:53","slug":"aus-partners-on-new-recycling-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2023\/01\/21\/aus-partners-on-new-recycling-project\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS partners on new recycling project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Zain Basalat&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure and the American University of Sharjah on Jan. 19 signed a contract with Bee\u2019ah Recycling to work together on the establishment of the country\u2019s first recycling facility for used electric vehicle batteries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agreement was signed at the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure booth during the 2023 World Future Energy Conference in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to His Excellency Sharif Salim Al Olama, the undersecretary of energy and petroleum affairs at MOEI, the project is meant to guarantee \u201cfuture readiness\u201d and get ready for the market for electric vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AUS Provost and Chief Academic Officer Juan Sanchez&nbsp;said \u201cWe are proud to be part of this important collaboration as we continue to contribute actively to the UAE\u2019s strategic sustainability agenda and its national drive to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zain Basalat&nbsp; UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure and the American University of Sharjah on Jan. 19 signed a contract with Bee\u2019ah Recycling to work together on the establishment of the country\u2019s first recycling facility for used electric vehicle batteries.&nbsp; The agreement was signed at the Ministry of Energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,17,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-4265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-sharjah-uae"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}